Universal Health Care Canada Style

canada has the most diversified population in the world,

Well I am going to amend my previous statement of "by every standard" the US Health Care system is the best in the world to be that my opinion is (and supported by the links I posted) that "by the standards most appreciated by people" the U.S. health care is the best in the world.

Being pretty much a nationalist, I would hope others would feel the same way about health care in their own countries too. But as was stated in one of the links I posted: If you were really sick and needed top notch care, would you go to Columbia or Denmark? No. If you had the option, you would be more likely to come to the U.S.

If you were really sick and needed top notch care, would you go to Columbia or Denmark? No. If you had the option, you would be more likely to come to the U.S.

A number of preventive health schemes are available to people resident in Denmark free of charge.

WHO gives the U.S. pretty much a bum rap on its health care, but WHO is an arm of the U.N. that gives the U.S. pretty much a bum rap on everything.

Well I'm sorry. I didn't mean to upset anybody. I keep forgetting personal observations and comments are unacceptable when the U.S. is supposed to look bad.

Ya'll have a good day. I do have to get back to work.

"The equivalent of 390 jumbo jets full of people are dying each year due to likely preventable, in-hospital medical errors, making this one of the leading killers in the U.S."

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Among the findings in the HealthGrades Patient Safety in American Hospitals study are as follows:

About 1.14 million patient-safety incidents occurred among the 37 million hospitalizations in the Medicare population over the years 2000-2002.
Of the total 323,993 deaths among Medicare patients in those years who developed one or more patient-safety incidents, 263,864, or 81 percent, of these deaths were directly attributable to the incident(s).
One in every four Medicare patients who were hospitalized from 2000 to 2002 and experienced a patient-safety incident died.
The 16 patient-safety incidents accounted for $8.54 billion in excess in-patient costs to the Medicare system over the three years studied. Extrapolated to the entire U.S., an extra $19 billion was spent and more than 575,000 preventable deaths occurred from 2000 to 2002.
Patient-safety incidents with the highest rates per 1,000 hospitalizations were failure to rescue, decubitus ulcer and postoperative sepsis, which accounted for almost 60 percent of all patient-safety incidents that occurred.
Overall, the best performing hospitals (hospitals that had the lowest overall patient safety incident rates of all hospitals studied, defined as the top 7.5 percent of all hospitals studied) had five fewer deaths per 1000 hospitalizations compared to the bottom 10th percentile of hospitals. This significant mortality difference is attributable to fewer patient-safety incidents at the best performing hospitals.
Fewer patient safety incidents in the best performing hospitals resulted in a lower cost of $740,337 per 1,000 hospitalizations as compared to the bottom 10th percentile of hospitals.

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"If all the Medicare patients who were admitted to the bottom 10th percentile of hospitals from 2000 to 2002 were instead admitted to the "best" hospitals, approximately 4,000 lives and $580 million would have been saved," said Dr. Collier.

What makes anybody think we would do any better with the government taking over MORE of it?

What makes anybody think we would do any better with the government taking over MORE of it?